County / FIPS 12027
DeSoto County
Florida
DeSoto County runs 12 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Florida has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
12
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
637
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in DeSoto County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$223.9M
Per resident
$6,589
Change since FY2021
+26%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $177M |
| 2022 | $187M |
| 2023 | $232M |
| 2024 | $205M |
| 2025 | $224M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. DeSoto County ranks 1533rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in DeSoto County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desoto County High School | Desoto | Arcadia | 1,244 |
| Desoto Middle School | Desoto | Arcadia | 1,169 |
| Desoto Secondary School | Desoto | Arcadia | 69 |
| Desoto Virtual Academy | Desoto | Arcadia | 53 |
| Memorial Elementary School | Desoto | Arcadia | 793 |
| Nocatee Elementary School | Desoto | Nocatee | 446 |
| West Elementary School | Desoto | Arcadia | 795 |
| Reduced Services | Desoto | Arcadia | 10 |
| Teen Paren Pk Child Care Program | Desoto | Arcadia | 3 |
| Desoto Virtual Franchise | Desoto | Arcadia | — |
| Desoto Virtual Instruction Program | Desoto | Arcadia | — |
| Hospital and Homebound | Desoto | Arcadia | — |